VDM breaks silence after court orders arrest over alleged defamation

Abdullateef Fowewe

Controversial social media critique, Martins Vincent Otse, widely known as VeryDarkMan /VDM, has reacted to a court order calling for his arrest as regards alleged defamation of gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo.

VDM in a video shared on his social media handle on Friday, claimed the judiciary is attempting to silence him, stating that his arrest shouldn’t have been ordered by the court considering the fact that he is not in Nigeria and has a pending case in the same court, which he has never missed.

He questions the legitimacy of the arrest order and accuses the judiciary of trying to shut him down.

He also disclosed that another court in Nyanyan, Abuja, had also issued an injunction restricting him from discussing Mercy Chinwo and Eezee Tee, which he believes is an attempt to silence him.

He said, “So in respect to this news that went viral yesterday, that the courts have ordered for my arrest. First things first, the judiciary cannot shut me down. A lot of you don’t know, but there is a plot for the judiciary to shut me down, but I will resist it instead, I will expose all those people paying money for it. I will expose all of you, all those people forum-shopping judges and all those their illegal orders. I will expose all of you because tell me something. How can a man have six cases in front of one magistrate in one day, one lawyer have six cases in front of one magistrate in one day, and on that same day, the judge ordered for my arrest.

“On that same day, after they told him, because my lawyer told him that this guy is not in Nigeria, my lawyer also told them that I have a case in that same court, and I have never missed a day. The lawyer told him that. As a matter of fact, I was even in China when they filed for that case. So I’m not around, and you’re ordering for my own arrest and I’m not even around, not just that on that same day when they ordered from arrest, that was yesterday, another court in Nyanya is also issuing an injunction that I should not talk about Mercy Chinwo and is Eezee Tee matter again.

“Meanwhile, this other magistrate that ordered my arrest has also issued an injunction that should not talk about this case. Now, the one in Nyanya that issued that injunction was also a magistrate. He was recently made judge. Was also a magistrate. Was recently made a judge. Now again, if you go through that their case, the affidavit is very scanty. No reasonable person will give an order based on that affidavit, based on that case. Wey, they file and they look the case, and I’m like, what’s going on here? Not just that, this expertise that you people pass, this expert I thought the NJC, I’ve stopped that. I put a stop on that, and I’ve warned all judges to not do that experte thing anymore. So why is this judge in Nyanya, Why is he doing it? So the agency, is it that you don’t have the law does not stand. I mean, you put a stop to this. Why are they trying to do it?

“I know wetin unna dey look for, they want the news. Oh, Verydarkman came to Nigeria because their plan will be if I come, Nigeria make them handcuff me. They handcuff me. People go say, Yes, oh, mercy, don win and all that see, the truth is that even if I come to Nigeria now, hm, and they handcuff me, listen, it still does not change the truth that there was abuse of power and influence.”